The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

Ling-Hwei Kuo is one of the leading scholars in the fields of gender law and labor law in Taiwan. She has been involved in the research of gender law and labor laws since graduate study in Germany (Ph.D. 1992), and now she is a professor at the National Taipei University. A prolific author of articles and books on the regulation and reform of gender equality, she served as the third-term President of the Society of Labor Law of Taiwan and the Chairman of the Department of Judicial Studies of the National Taipei University between 2003 and 2005. She also drafted the Taiwanese Gender Equality in Employment Act which came into force in 2000, and served as the member of the Women's Rights Promotion Committee of Executive Yuan in Taiwan.

Professor Kuo is currently funded by a Fulbright Award, and is working on a comparative study on gender equality employment laws and regulations in Taiwan and the U.S.A. She intends to study the foundation, rationale and spirit of U.S. gender laws and regulations, and is also interested in examining the mechanism of enforcement and related training and public outreach programs. She will also look into compliance strategies by employers in various sectors of society, especially how employees create a home-work balance and the company's facilitation of this.

Professor Kuo will be at the Clayman Institute from August 2006 to February 2007. She hopes to contribute to the Institute's studies of the workplace during her time as a visiting Research Fellow. She can be reached at lkuo1 @ stanford.edu.